Spam has basically put the kabosh on whatever community I had on this site. I got so many comments that I had to put up the firewall of registration to stop it and it was just too much for people to register or login in comment. Can’t really blame them.
Now that Facebook is around and my posts here are automatically published on my FB account, whatever comments people tend to have are posted there. It’s sort of annoying as FB is so ephemeral. I suppose you could find all all your posts if you were willing to dig far enough, but what a pain and there’s no searching for them. The posts live for a while on the wall and then, for all intents and purposes, they are gone. That’s just they way it is.
So I don’t know if this is going to bring back commenters to my site, but registration is no longer necessary as I finally got around to installing a “Captcha” to prevent spammers from attacking the site. It’s not going to stop them from trying. It’s just going to stop them from succeeding. A few weeks back I turned off registration after having it in place for a few years and I was bombarded by a mountain of spam comments. I immediately turned it back on. I was defeated, but only momentarily.
The Captcha is sort of ugly, but it only shows up once you start typing your comment. And if it’s going to stop spam, I can live that.
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